RIP to another amongst us: UPI's Michael T.Malloy 1936-2021
Carl Robinson
Mike was born in Chicago in 1936. He was a war correspondent for United Press International in Laos and India, and UPI Bureau Chief during the war in Vietnam. He was the managing editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal based in Hong Kong and the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones operations in Canada. In 1995-97, he worked on a financial news service for Dow Jones in India. He wrote two books and for about ten years, was a reporter and managing editor of the National Observer (Washington, D.C.)
Mike first became involved with newspapers as a copyboy for the Chicago Daily News. He learned his trade as a police reporter and then an editor with the Chicago News Bureau. He then worked for the U.S. military newspaper Pacific Stars and Stripes in Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines.
As a Fulbright Fellow in the 1994-95, he taught business journalism in Kazakhstan. Although he studied at Columbia University in a Ford Foundation program for journalists, it wasn't until 2001 that he completed a university degree, a B.A. in Archaeology at the University of Toronto, at the age of 65.
After retiring from journalism, he worked as an archaeologist in Ontario and British Columbia. He spent about 10 summers with Wilfrid Laurier University digging on Roman-Nabatean and neolithic sites in Jordan. He also worked on the Queen of Sheba site in Yemen with the American Foundation for the Study of Man. He was also a volunteer at the Royal Ontario Museum and Habitat for Humanity in Toronto.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth Lor Malloy and daughter Linda Malloy of Toronto, son Terry “Tierro” Malloy, daughter-in-law Bridget Law, grandsons Aaron and Ravi, and sister Shawn Gatz in the U.S.
He is fondly remembered for his encyclopedic mind, his sense of humour, skepticism, his love of family, and as a teacher of writing. He had a love of travel which took him around the world professionally and personally. You can learn more about Mike in his wife's memoir under the title Brightening My Corner to be published in 2022. A memorial axe-throwing party is being considered.
In lieu of flowers, please send
donations to APOPO-Hero Rats
https://www.apopo.org/en/support-us
or the Oncology
Department, St. Joseph's
Health Centre, Toronto.
The family can be
contacted at
ruth...@hotmail.com.
Dan Southerland
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Mike was my first boss when check and I arrived in Saigon. He was a good guy. Betsy
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